"Coming at the end of a year of war, Shiloh was the first battle on a scale that became commonplace during the next three years. The 20,000 killed and wounded at Shiloh (about equally distributed between the two sides) were nearly double the 12,000 battle casualties at Manassas, Wilson's Creek, Fort Donelson, and Pea Ridge combined....... Sherman described 'piles of dead soldiers' mangled bodies..... without heads and legs.....The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war'."

Hey, that's one heavy burden to lay on a child. The ending of all war. Kind of like dying for our sins. This all sounds so familiar, somehow.